In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring order to the town of Horisoto, or is he, too a corrupt villain looking to gain wealth from the oppressed people? From the pen of famed samurai author Yamamoto Shugoro, this exciting tale turns the tables on the standard samurai story with a unique lead character previously portrayed in Ichikawa Kon’s “Dora Heita.”

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

An elderly bell maker reminisces about his life filled with tragedy.

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the...

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physical...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...

During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct...

One samurai is ordered to kill another by their master in punishment.

During the reign of Shogun Hidetada, both Hirate Musashi and Okamoto Musashi strive to become the fi...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai who seek vengeance against the man who caused their ma...

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...